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Falcon Heavy: Dragonfly

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    Falcon Heavy: Dragonfly is provisionally scheduled for Wednesday, 5 July 2028. The listed date may change. Check the source for confirmation.

    SpaceX is preparing to launch Dragonfly on a Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA. Dragonfly is NASA's 4th New Frontiers program mission that will send a robotic rotorcraft to fly within the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan to sample materials and determine surface composition in different geologic settings, advancing humanity's search for the building blocks of life. The craft is a large quadcopter with double rotors with mass of about 875 kg, featuring rotors of 1.35 m in diameter. It can fly through several kilometers within an hour and will perform 1 flight per Titan day (~16 Earth days). During the planned 3.3-year mission, Dragonfly is expected to cover distance up to several hundred km. Dragonfly will use a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) to power its instruments. The planned science instrument suite is: * DragonCam: Camera Suite * DrACO: Drill for Acquisition of Complex Organics * DraMS: Mass Spectrometer * DraGNS: Gamma-ray and Neutron Spectrometer * DraGMet: Geophysics and Meteorology. Launch is planned for 5 July 2028, subject to confirmation.

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    United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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    Launch Library 2

    Source last checked Oct 19, 2026

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